I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
SUSAN SONTAGIn the valley of sorrow, spread your wings.
More Susan Sontag Quotes
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No ‘we’ should be taken for granted when the subject is looking at other people’s pain.
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The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.
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Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers.
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Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.
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One can never ask anyone to change a feeling.
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Books are funny little portable pieces of thought.
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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.
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Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.
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The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
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The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
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To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.
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Our appreciations, it was felt, could be so much more inclusive if we said that something, instead of being beautiful, was ‘interesting’.
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The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.
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Being in love means being willing to ruin yourself for the other person.
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A writer, I think, is someone who pays attention to the world.
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